X11 and WinKey [was Re: Updating to xorg-x11 packages?]

[Dennis Gilmore]

On Tuesday 23 March 2004 6:47 pm, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> >Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 09:14:31 +0100
<snip>
> Downside to #1 is that users upgrading manually using rpm -Uvh,
> or via up2date, yum, apt will have a one time growing pain during
> the transition from XFree86 to xorg-x11.  Solution #1 is what we
> probably would have done in any previous OS release to play
> things safe.
>

this is how i upgraded to xorg from XFree86  i ran rpm -qa XFree86* > xlist 
then made the xlist file a bash script to do rpm -e --nodeps on each pacakge 
then once done i ran up2date xorg*  once all installed i ran init 1 then init 
5 and all worked as expected  and i moved to xorg early in the piece.  
i did rebuild ttmkfdir so that it didnt want XFree86-libs >4.2.99 i think it 
was but thats since been fixed 

maybe we just say to thouse using these methods to upgrade you do something 
like that and make sure anaconda handles things for install that way

Dennis

> Downside to #2 is the risks involved with triggers, that have
> shown again and again repeatedly in almost every rpm package that
> has ever used them, that triggers are very hard to get right, and
> to predict all the possible ways the script might get called in
> the future.  They're notoriously hard to test in advance also,
> but once they're out in the wild, if a bug is found, then users
> are essentially screwed until they've upgraded at least 2 times.
>
> Again, I'm very hesitant to use rpm triggers, but at this point
> nothing is ruled out yet.  I'm open to suggestions.
>
>
> --
> Mike A. Harris       ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
> OS Systems Engineer - X.org X11 maintainer - Red Hat


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